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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally I wish we'd have a resurgence of late '70's names. Jessica, Rachel, Laura, Stephanie, Lisa, Nicole, Samantha, Allison, Kristen, etc. [/quote]

Is one of those your names or your friends?[/quote]

My kids each have had one of those in their classrooms: Rachel, Jessica, Heather, Samantha. Lisa was a popular nickname for Elizabeth, but now there's different ones. I've seen quite a few Laurens.

The other day I heard a preschooler called Ashley and I had to do a double take![/quote]

Many gen Xers are bound to have had negative associations with someone with those names.[/quote]

I'm right between Gen X and Millennial and grew up with people with all of those names. The issue for me would not be that I have negative associations -- most of them I have positive associations because they are/were my friends.

It's more that it would be awkward because I already know too many people with those names. My boss, my colleagues, my friends from college, my neighbors. Even when the associations are positive, they are also specific. Lisa is my BFF from high school and the name of two different bosses I've had. When I think "Lisa", I already have very particular ideas of what that person is like, and it's not a baby or a little girl in 2026. It's a woman in her 40s or 50s. That's why people look back a couple generations for names, to find a new-to-you name for this new-to-you person. You don't want to give a baby a name shared by lots of adults you encounter regularly.[/quote]

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